When you are thinking about starting your business, it can be like a battle inside your head.
You’ll have many positive feelings also mixed with many negative ones.
Are you excited and motivated but also nervous and uncertain? This mindset is typical primarily when you’ve worked at your 9-5 for many years. You’ve been told what time to arrive, what to do and when to leave.
But following someone else’s orders causes you to lose your sense of self-direction.
Tuning into the right mindset doesn’t mean you’ll never feel uncertain or nervous. But you’ll be able to control these emotions that keep you caged from reaching your potential. You’ll still experience negative thoughts and feelings, but the successful mindset automatically transforms into positivity.
With such confidence, you’ll progress and rarely be stuck in procrastination.
So, consider the three mindset changes you need to master before starting your business.
The Secret Handler
Your subconscious plays a significant role in the thoughts you think and the outcomes resulting from these thoughts. At the moment, if you are not conscious of what your subconscious tells you, then it’s likely to be hurting your success.
Your subconscious takes in and processes everything around you. It then replays this information back to you like a message of confirmation. Whatever is in your subconscious hard drive can expand or decrease your chances of success when starting your business.
The first step to reprogramming is through meditation. Harvard Gazette explains that meditation changes the structure of the brain. Eight weeks of mindfulness meditation increases the areas of the brain that helps to control emotion regulation and self-referential processing. There is also evidence of decreases in this part of the brain too. Cell volume in the Amygdala, which is responsible for fear, anxiety, and stress, showed a lower level for people who meditate regularly.
Alongside meditation, simple, quiet time is another excellent tool. You’ll be finding out the reasons behind why you’re holding yourself back.
Sit in a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed. Get a pen and paper and sit as though you are getting ready to meditate. Write down all of your worries and anxieties. Listen and feel what your subconscious is trying to say.
What are its fears? Why isn’t it helping you work towards your goals? Is it trying to protect you from something? List the broad reasons, and then you can start to dig deeper for specific answers—for example, your subconscious fears success which is a general reason.
Listen to the specific answers about what it fears about success.
Is it scared of letting people down? Is it scared you might grow apart from your partner? Is it afraid that business will take over your life?
Your subconscious is trying to prevent you from harm and disappointment so let it have its say. Use the opportunity to find genuine answers without judgment or anger. By tapping into their reasons why this is priceless information, you need to turn things around and reprogram your mindset.
The Luxury of Negative Thought
Business is challenging, and sometimes life can turn up the pressure. It can feel easier to stay in pajamas, eat cake and feel sorry for yourself. But this attitude never created anything positive.
Once you become aware of your thoughts and commit to a positive attitude, your perception of the world changes, and so does your mindset.
Commit one day to being a bystander on your thoughts. Have you ever seen Supernanny? She monitors the family one day, and the next day, she tells them where they are going wrong. This is what you will be doing with your thoughts. Spend a day thinking your usual thoughts without interference. But every time you think of a negative review, make a mental note of this.
By the end of the day, consider how many negative thoughts you have accumulated. Can you even remember?
If you can’t, then it’s time to change. Instead of unconsciously committing to negative thoughts, why not conscious commit to positive ones?
Think about what makes you happy. Think about who you love. Think about it so much until you can’t help but smile. When you are filled with this cheerful, warm feeling you can begin to write down the things you are grateful for. Make this process a personal one. It doesn’t have to be noticeable. For example, “I’m grateful that my family loves me.”
Make this about you, write down things like…
- “I’m grateful my dad phones to safely check I’m home from work.”
- “I’m lucky to have an accountability partner who cares enough to support me when I want to quit.”
Write down 3-5 items. The next time you have a negative thought, take a minute to gather your thoughts and think of 1 item on your list. Take a deep breath in and breathe out slowly. When you do this, imagine that you’re expelling the negativity, only being left with the gratitude of your positive thought.
Success Steps Look Like This
New start-up owners make goals, want to hit targets, and grow their businesses. But when it doesn’t happen within the time frame, it can bring on impatience. The feeling of impatience creates negativity, anxiety, and frustration, which is the mindset that you don’t want.
A mindset constantly in a state of ‘chase’ will always be just out of reach from its intended goal.
You have to relax and know that no amount of shortcuts result in success. It never works because there are no shortcuts, no secrets, and no get-it-faster technique.
Be focused on growth and laying down strong foundations so your mindset is in place of care processes.
Conclusion
When starting your business, a big mistake is to believe that years of a stagnate 9-5 will not affect building a mindset geared for success. You can break this mound, and it’s not out of your reach. The attitude you seek is one that you already have; you only have to activate it. The seed is already planted, and you have to grow it.
